Notes From Below @ Historical Materialism London Conference
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Join us at the Notes from Below social on Friday night, from 18:00 at The College Arms. We have booked the downstairs of the pub, around the corner from SOAS: 18 Store St, London WC1E 7DH.
Register for the conference here: https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/call-for-abstracts-twenty-first-annual-historical-materialism-london-conference/
THURSDAY
Panel Session 1 - 12:30-14:15 - From Self-Organised Workers' Movements to Workers' Power in a Transitional Society [B203]
Karin Stöckel: the experience of Gruvkvinnor
Filip Tedelund: Solidarność and class independence
Jari Söyrinki and Geoff McCormack: Malmfälten, producer unions, and green transition
Tommy Hjertberg: Nuclear Power: Locking or Liberating Technology?
Panel Session 2 - 14:30-16:15 - Platform Worker Inquiries (I) [B203]
Andreia Machado Castiglioni de Araújo: The platformization of Brazilian public basic education as an emblem for the precariousness of teachers' labour [co- authors: Arthur Monzelli, Caio Espimpolo, Érica Navarro, Geisa dos Santos, José Guilherme Cagnin, Priscila Trucullo, Yan da Silva]
Sofia Negri and Maria Belén D'Ambrosio: Organising the unorganised: the experience of the Solidarity Stops in building the platform workers Union of Argentina
Ramiro Andrés Manini: The international class struggle for labour rights: the experience of the platform workers movement
Panel Session 3 - 16:30-18:15 - Platform Worker Inquiries (II) [B203]
Hugh Hammond: Concrete Labour and Algorithmic Pattern Recognition in the Technical Composition of Platform Work
Jonas Valente, Funda Ustek Spilda: Do microworkers want to organise? Understanding willingness and motivations to organise among workers in international microwork digital labour platforms
Marco Marrone: Rights Against the Machines! Organising and conresearch in the case of Riders Union Bologna
Struan Barr: Software workers’ practices of proxy management at an online labour platform
Panel Session 4 - 18:45-20:30 - Conversations with Robert Linhart, a film-interview [RG01]
Screening of Conversations with Robert Linhart, Luiz Renato Martins, director, and Maitê Fanchini, responsible for the images, sound recording, and editing
Matthew Myers: On Linhart’s Relevance
Panagiotis Sotiris: Robert Linhart and the politics of militant research
FRIDAY
Panel Session 5 - 9:30-11:15 - Climate and Crisis [B203]
Alexis Cukier: Eco-unionism vs green capitalism. Living labour, worker’s inquiry and alliances between unionists and eco-activists in France, Italy and beyond
Rhonda Koch: Climate crisis and the unconscious: On the central role of wage labour in the psychosocial handling of the climate crisis
Stefania Barca, Dimitris Stevis, Rocío Hiraldo: Just Transition policies and care work: an international inquiry
Panel Session 6 - 11:30–13:15 - Inquiries in Britain [B203]
Callum Cant: Things can only get…worse: Workers’ experiences of polycrisis in Britain
Jonny Jones: Spaces of conflict and competition in the making of a dockworker labour regime: England, 2013- 2022
Jonas Patrick Marvin: The Long 90s Were Really Long: Culture and Class Decomposition in Neoliberal Britain
Seth Wheeler: Big Flame; Excavating Operiasmo’s arrival in Britain
Panel Session 7 - 14:15-16:00 - International Inquiries (I) [B203]
Rafael Do Nascimento Grohmann: Organising Homeless Workers, Occupying the Tech: Solidarity and Technology in a Brazilian Social Movement
Lavanya Nott, Dana Kopel, Thalia Ertman: Palestine Solidarity at UCLA: Reflections from UAW 4811 Rank- and-File
Mehdi Shakarchi: Iraq’s Ministry of Industry and Mineral: between Ba'thism and neoliberalism
Panel Session 8 - 16:15-18:00 - International Inquiries (II) [B203]
Angelo Moro, Francesca Gabbriellini, and Arianna Tassinari: A working-class road to radical industrial democracy: Workplace industrial relations and workers mobilisation in the ex-GKN factory in Florence
Gabriel Rosenman: Solidarity Strike Funds in France: The Rise of a Class Activation Device
Marion Beauvalet: Proletarianization of Managers in France: An Analysis of Social Class Restructuring through the Study of Work Time Control Tools
Abrahim Assaily: Within and Against the Law: An Operaist Approach to the Development of the American Labour Law Regime
Social - 18:00-late - The College Arms
We have booked the downstairs of The College Arms, around the corner from SOAS for a social.
Address: 18 Store St, London WC1E 7DH
SATURDAY
Session 9 - 10:00-11:45 - Art and Culture [B203]
Katja Praznik: Can Art Workers Unionise? Contradictions in Organizing Art Workers
Steff Hui Ci Ling, Bobby Malone: From Inquiry to Town Hall: Art Workers on Worker Identity and Political Formation
Benjamin Anderson: (Im)Material Interventions: Creative and Cultural Workers’ Responses to Precarity and the Housing Crisis
Ed Emery: Sea Songs, Migrations and Class Composition: An Inquiry for our Times
Session 10 - 12:00-13:45 - The Legacy of Harry Braverman in Worker Centred and Directed Research [B203]
Tom Hoctor & Joana Almeida: “Lumpenproletarianisation”, Care Work and the Question of “Unproductive Labour”: Theorising With and Beyond Braverman’s Labour and Monopoly Capital
Arianna Introna: Harry Braverman’s Hauntology of the Capitalist Mode of Production: An Autonomist Disability Perspective
Anna Zoellner & Angus Dixon: Production Line TV Rationalisation in Factual Television Production
Respondents: Notes from Below
Session 11 - 14:30-16:15 - Care and Feminised Work Inquiries [B203]
Anastasia C. Wilson: Decomposing Care: Towards a Care Workers' Inquiry
Lydia Hughes and Valentine (PAWA): Inquiry into migrant care work in Britain
Ana Cvelfar, Marja Zakelšek: Feminist Co-Research: The case of retail workers in Slovenia
Antonio Rodriguez Cruz: Touristic Capital and reproductive labour. The struggle of the "Kellys" in the Canary Islands
Session 12 - 16:30-18:15 - Notes from Below: Worker Centre Issue 22 Launch [B203]
Editors of Notes from Below
Mostafa Henaway: Workers’ Inquiry, Migration, and Amazon Kevin Van Meter: How Can Workers’ Inquiry Aid Organizing?
SUNDAY
No stream panels!